Improvement in mitre-gauges



I annexed drawing, making part of this specification, wherein- @einen gisten @anni ffies. i

W. LA BAW AND IRA W. FLEMING, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, AND AARON T. HUTOHINSON, OF HARLEM, NEW YORK.

. Letters .Patent No.v 77,053, dated April 21, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN MITRB-GAUGEIS.

To ALL WHOM- IT MAY CoNcERN:

Be it known that we, GEORGE W. LA BAW and Inn W. FLEMING, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson, andState of New Jersey, and AARON vT..]3U11ICHINS0N, of Harlem, in the county and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied `to use, a certain new and usefullmprovement in Mitre-Gauges; and we do hereby v'declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the Figure 1 is a plan of said mitre-gauge,

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same, and

Figure 3 is a cross-section at the line w cv, g. 1'.

Similar marks of reference denote thesame parts.

Mitre-gauges have heretofore been 'made' for bisecting an angle that is to receive a moulding, in order that said moulding may be sawed to the proper angle to iit into its place. Oui` invention is to accomplish this object with greater; facility, and more reliably than heretofore. i

Thenatur'e of our said invention consists in a pair of arms hinged to a stock, upon which is a sliding clamp that carries the saw-guide, and is connected Vby links with said hinged arms, so as to allow said hinged arms to be placed within and conformed to any angle to which a moulding is to be fitted, and at the same time insure the stock being in the correct position, midway between said arms, in orderthat the angle may be bisected,

vand hence that any moulding or ornament, sawed oli' in such gauge, vshall properly mitre in such angle.

lIn the drawing, a is a stock for-med of wood or metal; I have shown one end, as ahandle, to facilitate the using of the gauge.

c c are joints upon the ends of the arms d d, united by one centre-pin or bolt, z', to the stock a, so that said arms d can be swung oli" at right angles to said stock, or turned down at the side thereof, and thereby conform to anyinclined angle.

c is a slider that is clamped by a screw, f, tothe stock a, afterit has been adjusted, and g g are links hinged at their ends, respectively, tothe arms d and Aslider e, so that this slider e will be moved along the stock a,'as the arms el are opened or closed to accommodate any angle into which a moulding is to be fitted, and those links g canse the stock a always tobe centrally between the arms d.

The saw-guido, t, is made of wood, and attached to the sliding clamp c by means of metal doivels on saidclamp passing vup into holes in said guide i. The object of this construction is to prevent the saw coming into contact with and being injured by any metal in the guide.

7c is the saw-guide for the other portion of the saw. This also is made of wood, and it is tc be retainedin a similar` manner tothe guide h, if the stock a is made'of metal.

Z are guides on the arms d d, against which and the guide 7c the material to be sawed is laid, and willoccupy a position parallel to the edge of the arms 02,-in order that the sawing, through theguides t and 7c, may be on a line that bisects the angle contained between the arms d, so that the mouldings will properly mitre-together.

What we claim, end dcsire to secure by LettersP'atcnt, is- The arms d, jointed to the stock a, and connected by the link's g to the clamp e, that slides upon the stock a, in combination with the saw-guides k, at the joint z', and the saw-guidel t, on-the clamp e, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. v In witness whereof, we have hereunto 4set our signatures, this 14th day of August, A. D. 1867.

' GEORGE W. 'LA BAW,

AARON T. HUTCHINSON, Witnesses: IRA W. FLEMING.- (inns. H. SMITH, v GEO. D. WALKER. 

